In a candid conversation, Mike and Mark unravel the complexities of monumental political events, from Trump’s surprising electoral triumphs to the sensational details of inaugural balls. Dive into a facet of history often glossed over—how personal beliefs, divine intervention, and cold, hard facts intersect in the world of political machinations. This episode is an immersive experience into the enigmatic interplay between public figures, their personas, and the underlying spiritual narratives that often go unnoticed.
Mike Gallagher. Every day, Mike visits with Mark Davis, morning host on 660 AM The Answer in Dallas. Here’s today’s Eminem experience.
SPEAKER 03 :
Let’s just stop and let this ruminate a little bit. Think about this. We’re off to Washington, D.C. after the show to cover… The inauguration of Donald J. Trump. Mark, I want to ask you a personal question. In the middle of 2024, when Trump was being convicted of 34 felonies, think about that for just a little, let that sink in. If you or I had one felony to our name. We’re done. We’re done. Ruins our life. How about 34? How about 34? Which, of course, the absurdity of that, taking an expired misdemeanor that expired due to the statute of limitations over a bookkeeping mistake. and turning it into 34 felony convictions.
SPEAKER 02 :
And maybe not even a mistake. It was a drop-down menu where he called it a legal cost. It was a legal cost.
SPEAKER 03 :
So to take that and turn it into 34 felony convictions, the absurdity of that is a big reason, a big part of why he won. Of course, the assassination attempt is a big part of why he won. All of this came together, and this is a God thing. You can’t ever convince most of us that God didn’t have his hand in this, Mark. You know, it’s been said that Trump believes that the assassination attempt was absolutely, it was God’s will, of course, that that bullet didn’t hit him in the head. that it would graze him. If he hadn’t turned his head in that split second, how do you not think of that as divine intervention? Even his haters can’t go around saying, oh, well, this is the luckiest son of a gun who ever lived. No, this isn’t luck. This is fate. This is spiritual. And I am so proud to be bundled up and headed to the tender conditions. Oh, my gosh. This is going to be one of the coldest inaugurations on record. One of the presidents who went to the inauguration was just cold. He died. William Henry Harrison.
SPEAKER 02 :
William Henry Harrison got pneumonia. And it wasn’t even that cold. It was just, it was like raining in like 38 or something.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, this is going to be cold. It’s going to be in the teens when people are filing in. Now, look, I have to sacrifice. I got to be in a warm, toasty studio anchoring. Joey Hudson will be among the crowd.
SPEAKER 02 :
You know what inquiring minds want to know? What? Where you stay in.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, I’m not staying where I usually stay because that hotel room – you know the hotel room where I usually stay?
SPEAKER 02 :
That’s why – by the way, I don’t need hotel name or room number. No, but I’ll tell you the story. Have you priced it out and found it? I have.
SPEAKER 03 :
There’s a hotel that I’ve always stayed at when I go to D.C. and I always like it. It’s an older hotel, but it’s very luxurious, very comfortable. It’s the Ritz-Carlton in Pentagon City. There you go.
SPEAKER 02 :
Across the river, really.
SPEAKER 03 :
You know, right over the bridge. And it’s easy to get to. In fact, do you know why it’s kind of famous? Do you know why it’s notorious for a reason?
SPEAKER 02 :
Something happened there? What happened there?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. Monica Lewinsky was confronted by FBI agents in that hotel. And that’s where she had, like, Linda Tripp. Remember how Linda Tripp turned her in and everything? Well, that all happened at that hotel. Anyway. I like that hotel. It’s comfortable. And, you know, it’s not a cheap room. I mean, but, you know, thankfully I can put it on the Salem expense account. It’s usually about $700 or $800 a night. Yeah, what is it now? $4,000. A night.
SPEAKER 02 :
$4,000 a night for a home. Is it time for my 30 cents? There’s no such thing as gouging. Oh, really? Really? No. That’s the marketplace. That’s gouging. I mean, gouging is like criminalized to some. Well, that should be criminal. No. Oh, stop it. Stop it. Stop it. We’re the conservatives. We’re the libertarians. They have every right to charge that. And if somebody doesn’t want it, they don’t pay it.
SPEAKER 03 :
And I’ll bet they’re sold out. So, anyway. So, proves my point exactly. We’re staying a little farther away, but not too far. In Baltimore. And we’re going to get to go to the balls. We’re going to go to a couple of inaugural balls Sunday night. It’s going to be, you know, Phil Boyce and Joey and Peg Hudson and I. Oh, my God. We’re going to go off to the South Carolina Palmetto Bowl.
SPEAKER 02 :
Make sure you’ve got a black tie and boots. Got to hang with the Texans.
SPEAKER 03 :
I got the boots. Well, I don’t have the boots, but I got the tux and I got the tie and the cumber. I got a big boy tie, too. I’ve got an actual tux tie that you’ve got to tie. It’s not a clip-on. Whistle. Do you know how to tie one of those? I do. I haven’t done it in 20 years, but I do. I don’t know how to tie it. I have no idea how to tie it. So Joey Hudson is going to have to treat me like a toddler and tie it for me. Come on. But how about the ball, the big ball, the Turning Point USA ball we’re going to get to go to, thanks to Phil Boyce’s connections. The actual village people are performing.
SPEAKER 02 :
man oh man they’re they’re performing and don jr and uh lord president trump i don’t know if he’s going to show up or not i’ll bet if i’ll bet he may i mean because the president and the first lady the freshly installed president and first lady usually make the rounds yes i mean the last one i actually went to was black tie and boots the texas ball for the first bush inauguration um but would trump come to the texas one i would think would come to various other ones i i It’s a cool tradition.
SPEAKER 03 :
It’s going to be Sunday night. Washington will be packed and there’ll be lots of excitement and drama. His official inauguration portrait has been released and it bears a striking resemblance to his mugshot, which I love.
SPEAKER 02 :
He’s got that glowering determination.
SPEAKER 03 :
With the lighting from below. It’s like, hey, look, I love the phrase, dad’s coming home and dad’s pissed. Dad is not happy with you. He is not happy. And speaking of interesting things about the inauguration, you know Jason Whitlock, right, from his many appearances with Tucker? The Fearless podcast. Fearless podcast. He does a rant about Michelle Obama refusing to go to Trump’s inauguration. Now, here’s what he said. It’s fascinating. I’m going to play it on the show today. And the post that he put up on X was, Michelle Obama is setting the example for black women. By missing Jimmy Carter’s funeral and making a fool out of Barack, she’s telling black women that they don’t have to pay any respects or follow any protocols. He mocked a conversation. He did a mocking conversation between – Barack and Michelle. And it went something like this. Honey, I’ve got to put on a suit and tie. We’ve got to pay respects to Jimmy Carter. Honey, we’ve got to go to D.C. It’s the inauguration of the 47th president. And Michelle says, I ain’t going. I ain’t going. I’m staying home. Honey, don’t embarrass me like this. And Jason Whitlock has a whole rant. Now, he’s a black man.
SPEAKER 02 :
I was going to say, which gives him a little bit of Teflon to be able to do this.
SPEAKER 03 :
Go ahead. I guess he has the latitude to do this. And he says, look, in the black community, this is a black – and he talks about a wife has a biblical – duty you know god a husband is accountable to god um a wife is accountable to her husband and god and it’s basically almost a scriptural reference he makes where he says look she’s making a fool out of barack obama there’s a lot of rumors swirling that their marriage is on the trouble in paradise yeah i mean what do you what do you make of that’s that’s the second uh hottest uh active rumor about michelle
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M&M Experience 01.17.25
In a candid conversation, Mike and Mark unravel the complexities of monumental political events, from Trump’s surprising electoral triumphs to the sensational details of inaugural balls. Dive into a facet of history often glossed over—how personal beliefs, divine intervention, and cold, hard facts intersect in the world of political machinations. This episode is an immersive experience into the enigmatic interplay between public figures, their personas, and the underlying spiritual narratives that often go unnoticed.
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